Can we just remove shards from the game?

[LineageRazor]

Another interesting way to "solve" the problem would be to put shards and crystals for sale on vendors to provide a price ceiling. They've done this with a number of previously scarce items when adding beast tribe vendors, like blue landtrap leaves for growth formula gamma. Have the amalj'aa vendor sell fire shards for 40 and fire crystals for 100, water shards and crystals on the sahagin vendor, etc.

While I haven't put a lot of thought into whether or not this would be wise, it WOULD mesh neatly with the whole "rebel beastman faction" theme. The "bad" beastmen want to summon Primals and need crystals to do it. The "good" beastmen want to stop it, and so probably spend some of their time taking those crystals away. What to do with those crystals, then? Sell them to adventurers, of course!